1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:26,610 --> 00:00:28,904 - I had this great saying once is, 4 00:00:29,196 --> 00:00:30,340 "Being a musician is incredible 5 00:00:30,364 --> 00:00:32,491 "because you get to control time." 6 00:00:34,744 --> 00:00:37,955 You can speed it up, you can slow it down, 7 00:00:38,247 --> 00:00:40,332 but you get to control it. 8 00:00:42,293 --> 00:00:44,962 And that's what I want. 9 00:00:45,254 --> 00:00:47,798 I want to lose myself in that. 10 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:27,254 I want to talk to you about next year's auditions. 11 00:01:27,546 --> 00:01:30,841 Be professional, no tears. 12 00:01:31,133 --> 00:01:34,095 No tears allowed in an audition. 13 00:01:34,386 --> 00:01:37,640 Be positive, concentrate on what you can do, 14 00:01:37,932 --> 00:01:39,850 and not what you can't do, OK? 15 00:01:40,142 --> 00:01:43,771 I can't tell you what it says to me 16 00:01:44,063 --> 00:01:46,732 when you have not prepared thoroughly, 17 00:01:47,024 --> 00:01:49,527 and then you sit in your audition and cry. 18 00:01:49,819 --> 00:01:52,363 Auditions are the hardest thing I do each year. 19 00:01:52,655 --> 00:01:55,157 - ♪ La Ti Do Re Mi ♪ 20 00:01:55,449 --> 00:01:57,118 - ♪ Fa Si La ♪ 21 00:01:57,409 --> 00:02:00,079 - ♪ Si Fa Mi Re Do Si ♪ - They have to be able 22 00:02:00,371 --> 00:02:04,291 to read music, they have to be able to read rhythms. 23 00:02:16,637 --> 00:02:18,013 The reason it's so hard is because 24 00:02:18,305 --> 00:02:23,144 I see students who really want to move up. 25 00:02:23,936 --> 00:02:24,979 - Oops. 26 00:02:25,271 --> 00:02:27,773 - And I have to look back at them and say, "No." 27 00:02:28,065 --> 00:02:30,385 - I think that the main thing that I noticed about Mr. Huls 28 00:02:30,442 --> 00:02:33,737 when I was like a Freshman was that he's really scary. 29 00:02:34,029 --> 00:02:35,340 - Cause he's really hard. - That's so 30 00:02:35,364 --> 00:02:37,324 true, he's very scary when you start choir. 31 00:02:37,616 --> 00:02:39,118 - He's really hard to approach. 32 00:02:39,410 --> 00:02:41,328 - I was very intimidated by him. 33 00:02:41,620 --> 00:02:43,330 He seemed very serious. 34 00:02:48,169 --> 00:02:49,962 - How much did you prepare for this audition? 35 00:02:50,254 --> 00:02:52,298 - I did prepare, but I'm nervous. 36 00:02:52,590 --> 00:02:53,716 It still sometimes happens. 37 00:02:54,008 --> 00:02:56,135 - He's still pretty scary sometimes. 38 00:02:57,928 --> 00:02:59,128 Take one minute to look at it, 39 00:02:59,346 --> 00:03:02,057 and then after a minute, I'll have you sing it for me. 40 00:03:03,475 --> 00:03:05,120 The scores on the score sheet were designed 41 00:03:05,144 --> 00:03:08,022 to separate those students who could demonstrate 42 00:03:08,314 --> 00:03:11,901 that on the drop of a hat these exercises, 43 00:03:13,444 --> 00:03:15,821 and those students who are still struggling. 44 00:03:20,242 --> 00:03:22,620 - ♪ Do Mi Sa ♪ 45 00:03:22,912 --> 00:03:26,916 - ♪ Sol La So Mi ♪ 46 00:03:27,208 --> 00:03:31,545 ♪ Re Mi So Mi ♪ 47 00:03:32,922 --> 00:03:37,885 ♪ Sol Do Mi Re ♪ Sorry. 48 00:03:41,263 --> 00:03:44,433 Some students have the ability, 49 00:03:44,725 --> 00:03:49,438 but might not necessarily demonstrate well in an audition. 50 00:03:51,065 --> 00:03:52,905 So, sometimes I have to take into consideration 51 00:03:53,067 --> 00:03:56,779 the history of the work that they've done cumulatively. 52 00:03:59,907 --> 00:04:02,368 - He's a little intimidating, and that's because 53 00:04:02,660 --> 00:04:04,860 he demands your respect, and you have to give it to him, 54 00:04:05,037 --> 00:04:06,914 otherwise it's not gonna go well. 55 00:04:07,206 --> 00:04:10,709 I'm a tough cookie. 56 00:04:14,922 --> 00:04:18,467 ♪ La Si Do Re Mi ♪ 57 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:23,138 ♪ Fi Si Ra Sol Fa Mi ♪ 58 00:04:23,430 --> 00:04:27,101 ♪ Re To Ti La ♪ 59 00:04:27,393 --> 00:04:28,393 - Thank you. 60 00:04:28,602 --> 00:04:30,187 The two top choirs here are 61 00:04:30,479 --> 00:04:32,439 Madrigal Ensemble, and Chamber Singers. 62 00:04:32,731 --> 00:04:35,025 Madrigal Ensemble is mixed, men and women, 63 00:04:35,317 --> 00:04:37,278 and the Chamber Singers is all women. 64 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:42,324 One, two, three, four. 65 00:04:44,159 --> 00:04:46,996 A typical mixed chorus, such as the Madrigal Ensemble, 66 00:04:47,288 --> 00:04:49,623 is made up of four different sections. 67 00:04:49,915 --> 00:04:52,334 The bass, which is the low male voice, 68 00:04:52,626 --> 00:04:54,795 tenor, high male voice, the alto section, 69 00:04:55,087 --> 00:04:58,841 the low female voice, and the high female voice, 70 00:04:59,133 --> 00:05:00,551 the soprano section. 71 00:05:00,843 --> 00:05:02,261 Thank you. 72 00:05:05,055 --> 00:05:07,725 One, two, three, four. 73 00:05:08,017 --> 00:05:12,104 It's really fascinating how students sing differently 74 00:05:12,396 --> 00:05:14,523 standing next to different people. 75 00:05:14,815 --> 00:05:16,692 ♪ Row, row, row your boat ♪ 76 00:05:16,984 --> 00:05:18,277 two, ready and go. 77 00:05:18,569 --> 00:05:20,821 - ♪ Row, row, row your boat... 78 00:05:21,113 --> 00:05:22,865 - I use "Row, row, row your boat." 79 00:05:23,157 --> 00:05:24,384 It's an easy song, most people know it, 80 00:05:24,408 --> 00:05:25,728 it has an octave leap, so it tells 81 00:05:25,951 --> 00:05:26,991 you a lot about the voice. 82 00:05:27,202 --> 00:05:27,786 And right here. 83 00:05:28,078 --> 00:05:28,787 Row, go. 84 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:29,788 Row, row. 85 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:30,706 Row, row. 86 00:05:30,998 --> 00:05:31,707 Row, row. 87 00:05:31,999 --> 00:05:32,999 Row, row. 88 00:05:33,167 --> 00:05:34,668 - I need you to sing with body. 89 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,587 I don't want little girl sounds. 90 00:05:36,879 --> 00:05:38,064 Right now I'm getting: Row, row, 91 00:05:38,088 --> 00:05:39,983 and that's not what I want, it's not how we sing. 92 00:05:40,007 --> 00:05:41,175 It's not a children's choir. 93 00:05:41,467 --> 00:05:43,302 - ♪ Row, row, row your boat ♪ 94 00:05:43,594 --> 00:05:45,220 Switch places. 95 00:05:45,512 --> 00:05:46,221 Two. 96 00:05:46,513 --> 00:05:48,349 - ♪ Row, row, row your boat ♪ 97 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:49,308 Four. 98 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:50,893 - ♪ Row, row, row your boat ♪ 99 00:05:51,185 --> 00:05:51,769 - Two. 100 00:05:52,061 --> 00:05:53,141 So, it's really interesting 101 00:05:53,228 --> 00:05:54,414 when you start playing with that. 102 00:05:54,438 --> 00:05:57,608 You know, you have this picture in your head 103 00:05:57,900 --> 00:06:00,260 of, "Well, I could have so-and-so, so-and-so, and so-and-so. 104 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:02,213 "I know their voices are gonna be great together. 105 00:06:02,237 --> 00:06:03,489 "I'm certain of that." 106 00:06:03,781 --> 00:06:05,421 Thank you, thank you, Angelique step back. 107 00:06:05,699 --> 00:06:06,742 Amy come up here. 108 00:06:07,034 --> 00:06:07,618 And then, when you come here and you hear them, 109 00:06:07,910 --> 00:06:08,952 and I go, "Oh." 110 00:06:12,039 --> 00:06:13,123 Gabe next to Andrew. 111 00:06:13,415 --> 00:06:15,209 Stephanie, thank you. 112 00:06:15,501 --> 00:06:17,878 And within the course of just one pass 113 00:06:18,170 --> 00:06:19,770 the sound is stronger and fuller already. 114 00:06:20,005 --> 00:06:21,465 They're just singing next to people 115 00:06:21,757 --> 00:06:23,509 who are of like voices perhaps. 116 00:06:23,801 --> 00:06:27,388 You are here because I saw something about you 117 00:06:27,679 --> 00:06:31,225 that I feel is worthy of seeing again. 118 00:06:31,517 --> 00:06:33,352 I cannot take all of you into 119 00:06:33,644 --> 00:06:35,437 Madrigals and Chamber next year. 120 00:06:55,207 --> 00:06:56,458 I could use some help 121 00:06:56,750 --> 00:07:00,087 in bringing ensemble instruments inside. 122 00:07:19,898 --> 00:07:21,733 Good morning, we had a wonderful morning 123 00:07:22,025 --> 00:07:23,819 today at Santa Monica High. 124 00:07:30,075 --> 00:07:31,368 - Excuse me. 125 00:07:35,372 --> 00:07:37,916 You know, we have an ensemble that is different each year. 126 00:07:38,208 --> 00:07:39,960 Seniors graduate, juniors come in. 127 00:07:40,252 --> 00:07:42,171 Find your own space on the riser. 128 00:07:42,463 --> 00:07:43,922 Run in place. 129 00:07:45,924 --> 00:07:48,427 Faster, knees up. 130 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:54,975 Rub your face. 131 00:08:06,612 --> 00:08:08,989 Be careful that the sound is not 132 00:08:09,281 --> 00:08:12,201 Mi is one sound, and E is one sound. 133 00:08:12,493 --> 00:08:14,536 It's not Mie, mie, mi. 134 00:08:14,828 --> 00:08:17,247 It's not like, you know, chihuahua face. 135 00:08:17,539 --> 00:08:19,541 I don't know what that means. 136 00:08:20,375 --> 00:08:23,003 Mi E, Mi E, Mi E, Mi. 137 00:08:23,295 --> 00:08:25,255 The learning curve for you over the next few weeks 138 00:08:25,380 --> 00:08:29,009 is going to be high because you have probably not been 139 00:08:29,301 --> 00:08:31,303 in an ensemble if you are a new member, 140 00:08:31,595 --> 00:08:35,349 that has worked this hard and this fast. 141 00:08:35,641 --> 00:08:38,227 I'm hoping that you do learn to love the process, though. 142 00:08:38,519 --> 00:08:40,145 You can see that we are a much bigger 143 00:08:40,437 --> 00:08:43,065 than we were last year, I have wanted to have a group 144 00:08:43,357 --> 00:08:44,858 with eight on a part for a long time. 145 00:08:45,150 --> 00:08:47,045 This is the first year I've been able to realize that 146 00:08:47,069 --> 00:08:49,071 and make it happen, but in order to have 147 00:08:49,363 --> 00:08:51,657 a group that functions is we need to be a group 148 00:08:51,949 --> 00:08:54,660 that likes each other and works well together. 149 00:08:54,952 --> 00:08:58,705 I expect you to be of good character, 150 00:08:58,997 --> 00:09:01,208 and to do the right thing. 151 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:05,837 I don't do well at all with racist, 152 00:09:06,129 --> 00:09:09,049 homophobic, sexist remarks. 153 00:09:09,341 --> 00:09:11,110 So, let's be really conscious of that this year, 154 00:09:11,134 --> 00:09:13,136 and make sure that doesn't happen. 155 00:09:13,428 --> 00:09:16,223 With that being said, have a great day. 156 00:09:19,476 --> 00:09:22,229 I know what it was like to be an other, in a way. 157 00:09:22,521 --> 00:09:24,081 So, I'm working really hard to make sure 158 00:09:24,356 --> 00:09:27,484 that no one feels that way in my room. 159 00:09:30,153 --> 00:09:33,365 Adolescence is a weird time for everybody. 160 00:09:33,657 --> 00:09:37,327 I got beat up a lot as a child 161 00:09:37,619 --> 00:09:41,999 for no good reason other than I was different. 162 00:09:43,166 --> 00:09:45,002 I wore cowboy boots to school. 163 00:09:47,129 --> 00:09:49,423 I pulled my pants up a little to high, 164 00:09:49,715 --> 00:09:51,800 I remember that being an issue. 165 00:09:56,013 --> 00:09:57,723 Music was always the safe place for me. 166 00:09:58,015 --> 00:09:59,975 It was a safe place. 167 00:10:03,020 --> 00:10:06,106 - High school sucks no matter where you go. 168 00:10:06,398 --> 00:10:08,400 I hate the social games, I hate, 169 00:10:08,692 --> 00:10:09,901 I just hate the age. 170 00:10:10,193 --> 00:10:12,779 I just don't like people, that sounds terrible, 171 00:10:13,071 --> 00:10:14,531 I don't like people. 172 00:10:14,823 --> 00:10:16,283 You're walking down the hallway, 173 00:10:16,575 --> 00:10:18,886 and you see someone you used to be really good friends with, 174 00:10:18,910 --> 00:10:21,538 like, say like elementary school, or something, 175 00:10:21,830 --> 00:10:25,417 and just for some reason, because of the social structure 176 00:10:25,709 --> 00:10:28,086 of high school, neither one of you 177 00:10:28,378 --> 00:10:29,796 will like say, "Hi," to each other. 178 00:10:30,088 --> 00:10:31,566 But if you saw that person, and you were walking 179 00:10:31,590 --> 00:10:34,009 down like Broadway and 4th, you would say, "Hi." 180 00:10:34,301 --> 00:10:36,345 Because you're removed from the equation. 181 00:10:36,637 --> 00:10:38,930 You know, you're removed from, like, the social scene. 182 00:10:41,725 --> 00:10:45,395 I'm fine, like, spending time on my own, I've realized. 183 00:10:50,609 --> 00:10:53,612 I like my time to myself. 184 00:10:53,904 --> 00:10:55,864 I guess that makes me different, I don't know. 185 00:11:08,085 --> 00:11:10,170 What happened today? 186 00:11:10,462 --> 00:11:12,506 Oh, I got a 14 out of 15 on the physics, 187 00:11:14,966 --> 00:11:16,843 math test on Friday. 188 00:11:17,135 --> 00:11:21,223 Spanish quiz tomorrow, vocab quiz. 189 00:11:21,515 --> 00:11:23,767 - What do you think of this schedule? 190 00:11:24,059 --> 00:11:25,435 It's pretty intense. 191 00:11:27,896 --> 00:11:31,566 - I've never had a first week that's been so overwhelming. 192 00:11:31,858 --> 00:11:33,360 - First day, five hours of homework. 193 00:11:33,652 --> 00:11:34,652 - Yeah, right. 194 00:11:34,861 --> 00:11:36,905 - Me and Brett are both taking AP Physics. 195 00:11:37,197 --> 00:11:38,317 We have that class together. 196 00:11:38,490 --> 00:11:41,284 - I'm taking AP English, and I'm taking AP US History. 197 00:11:41,576 --> 00:11:43,954 - Honors, Pre-Calc, Calc A. 198 00:11:44,246 --> 00:11:45,997 - AP Spanish Five, and fourth period 199 00:11:46,289 --> 00:11:48,750 I have AP Bio, and then AP English. 200 00:11:49,042 --> 00:11:51,753 - I have a tendency to take on a lot of things. 201 00:11:52,045 --> 00:11:53,885 Next year, I'm going to be in three AP classes, 202 00:11:53,922 --> 00:11:55,149 and it's gonna be a lot of work. 203 00:11:55,173 --> 00:11:56,383 AP English 11, AP US History. 204 00:11:56,675 --> 00:11:58,875 - I just got an editor position on the school newspaper, 205 00:11:58,927 --> 00:11:59,927 which is extremely... 206 00:12:00,137 --> 00:12:01,137 - Journalism... 207 00:12:01,263 --> 00:12:02,532 - My English class, we always have homework, 208 00:12:02,556 --> 00:12:04,200 and that's always at least one to two hours. 209 00:12:04,224 --> 00:12:05,851 I'm in Wind Ensemble, Top Band. 210 00:12:06,143 --> 00:12:07,811 - I do Youth Group, and stuff like that. 211 00:12:08,103 --> 00:12:09,247 It's gonna be a lot of work to try 212 00:12:09,271 --> 00:12:09,896 and keep everything in balance, 213 00:12:10,188 --> 00:12:12,190 and leave me with some sleep. 214 00:12:20,490 --> 00:12:22,093 - If you have forms, could you pass those to Amy, 215 00:12:22,117 --> 00:12:23,317 and she'll put 'em in the box. 216 00:12:23,410 --> 00:12:24,870 Monday massage. 217 00:12:30,667 --> 00:12:32,437 - Coming from Women's to Chorale, now Madrigal, 218 00:12:32,461 --> 00:12:35,922 it's jut like, "Wow, I can't believe I got this far." 219 00:12:39,426 --> 00:12:41,678 Right now I'm kinda like a loner. 220 00:12:44,181 --> 00:12:46,641 Just everybody has their own clique. 221 00:12:49,269 --> 00:12:50,669 I understand that Mr. Huls is trying 222 00:12:50,812 --> 00:12:53,398 to get rid of those cliques, but I haven't really 223 00:12:53,690 --> 00:12:56,151 established that really good friendship yet. 224 00:12:56,443 --> 00:12:59,946 So far, I haven't really gotten there. 225 00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:01,364 - Stop, listen. 226 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:05,368 Pillsbury Doughboy right there right? 227 00:13:05,660 --> 00:13:09,331 OK, so put your finger out, sing it go. 228 00:13:09,623 --> 00:13:12,042 - He's my favorite teacher on campus, for sure. 229 00:13:12,334 --> 00:13:14,127 - This way, not to each other, creepy. 230 00:13:16,379 --> 00:13:17,881 Huls has taught me 231 00:13:18,173 --> 00:13:21,510 an incredible amount with reading music. 232 00:13:21,802 --> 00:13:23,345 Only the eighth notes. 233 00:13:23,637 --> 00:13:27,182 And beat, and go, and. 234 00:13:31,228 --> 00:13:32,979 - It's definitely a different language, 235 00:13:33,271 --> 00:13:35,774 with its own alphabet, its own grammar. 236 00:13:36,066 --> 00:13:37,168 Yeah, I had no idea what I was 237 00:13:37,192 --> 00:13:39,444 getting myself into when I joined. 238 00:13:40,278 --> 00:13:42,238 - So, I'm gonna point, here we go, first interval. 239 00:13:42,405 --> 00:13:44,407 It is like learning to read in another language. 240 00:13:44,699 --> 00:13:47,661 I mean, you're looking at symbols on a page 241 00:13:47,953 --> 00:13:49,996 and learning to interpret them into sound. 242 00:13:52,541 --> 00:13:54,501 It used to be I just wanted a good sounding choir. 243 00:13:57,420 --> 00:13:58,940 And what do you think is gonna be next. 244 00:13:59,089 --> 00:14:02,676 But I felt like all I was really giving these kids was 245 00:14:02,968 --> 00:14:06,429 the ability to stand in a semi circle 246 00:14:06,721 --> 00:14:11,309 and sing five or six or seven ditties, ditties. 247 00:14:11,601 --> 00:14:12,641 Let's go from the top now. 248 00:14:12,853 --> 00:14:14,145 And that's it. 249 00:14:14,437 --> 00:14:16,481 It was sort of the equivalent of 250 00:14:16,773 --> 00:14:20,902 an English teacher handing out three or four novels 251 00:14:21,194 --> 00:14:24,155 and reading it with the kids, but the kid never learned 252 00:14:24,447 --> 00:14:28,368 how to pick up a book and read it themselves. 253 00:14:28,660 --> 00:14:30,060 - Music is something that just like, 254 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,789 it brings people together. 255 00:14:33,081 --> 00:14:35,834 Spencer's my boyfriend, Spencer's my best friend. 256 00:14:36,126 --> 00:14:38,145 He's always been nice to me, he's always looked out for me, 257 00:14:38,169 --> 00:14:40,005 like even when we weren't going out, 258 00:14:40,297 --> 00:14:43,800 like when we were just, like, beginning to be friends. 259 00:14:44,092 --> 00:14:48,513 - We were friends for a year, then we started dating. 260 00:14:48,805 --> 00:14:51,308 That was like a week before school started. 261 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:52,309 - No, it wasn't. 262 00:14:52,601 --> 00:14:53,601 - Or, it wasn't. 263 00:14:53,643 --> 00:14:54,978 - We were in school, remember? 264 00:14:55,270 --> 00:14:57,081 Because then we had to go each lunch together that one day. 265 00:14:57,105 --> 00:14:59,065 - Yeah, OK, so we were in school. 266 00:15:00,567 --> 00:15:02,128 - I don't want to say a teacher's a friend 267 00:15:02,152 --> 00:15:04,032 cause a teacher's not somebody you're gonna like 268 00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:06,865 gossip with and talk about things, like your life. 269 00:15:07,157 --> 00:15:09,159 Clara and Luke got together the day after 270 00:15:09,451 --> 00:15:10,611 Cammie and Nick got together, 271 00:15:10,702 --> 00:15:12,302 and broke up the day after they broke up. 272 00:15:12,495 --> 00:15:14,181 - I didn't know that, and not that I make a business 273 00:15:14,205 --> 00:15:16,917 of knowing everybody's business. 274 00:15:17,208 --> 00:15:18,208 - Yes you do. 275 00:15:18,418 --> 00:15:19,858 - Yes I do, I'm kinda nosy, aren't I? 276 00:15:21,129 --> 00:15:23,757 - He puts so much into this program and this choir, 277 00:15:24,049 --> 00:15:26,718 and he just wants it to succeed so much. 278 00:15:28,136 --> 00:15:29,155 - What some people don't understand is 279 00:15:29,179 --> 00:15:32,098 I teach five choirs a day. 280 00:15:32,390 --> 00:15:34,476 And they're not at the same level. 281 00:15:44,194 --> 00:15:45,862 So you gotta communicate anger. 282 00:15:46,154 --> 00:15:47,739 One, two, and ready, and go. 283 00:15:52,911 --> 00:15:54,079 Shy. 284 00:15:55,246 --> 00:15:57,999 As humans, we're kind of naturally tense individuals, 285 00:15:58,291 --> 00:15:59,851 and the vocal folds aren't any different 286 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:01,795 than the rest of our body. 287 00:16:02,087 --> 00:16:03,087 We tense up there a lot. 288 00:16:06,257 --> 00:16:08,385 So, a lot of times I'm doing hand motions 289 00:16:08,677 --> 00:16:10,877 to release the tension, because if they're concentrating 290 00:16:10,929 --> 00:16:13,348 on flicking their arm out one way 291 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:15,934 that releases the tension in their vocal folds. 292 00:16:23,858 --> 00:16:26,611 Always using physicality to make the music better. 293 00:16:26,903 --> 00:16:30,532 Heel, toe, heel, together, heel, toe, heel, together. 294 00:16:30,824 --> 00:16:32,867 Kick, kick, kick, kick. 295 00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:38,081 Left, toe, heel, heel, heel, heel. 296 00:16:40,041 --> 00:16:42,127 Heel, toe, heel, together. 297 00:16:47,382 --> 00:16:48,800 Come on Gordon. 298 00:16:57,183 --> 00:16:59,978 All students learn in many different ways, 299 00:17:00,270 --> 00:17:03,606 and learning occurs in many different ways on this campus. 300 00:17:03,898 --> 00:17:04,898 OK, dictation time. 301 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:11,322 It can occur with students sitting behind 302 00:17:11,614 --> 00:17:14,325 a desk and taking notes, 303 00:17:14,617 --> 00:17:17,871 by students running around a track. 304 00:17:18,163 --> 00:17:20,999 It can occur by going on a field trip. 305 00:17:21,291 --> 00:17:23,918 That's what makes education magical. 306 00:17:24,210 --> 00:17:25,479 - The first year Mr. Huls was here, 307 00:17:25,503 --> 00:17:28,882 he came to me and said, "I wanna do an overnight retreat." 308 00:17:29,174 --> 00:17:30,300 "You wanna do what?" 309 00:17:48,026 --> 00:17:49,295 - When I was singing in graduate school 310 00:17:49,319 --> 00:17:51,321 we went away for a couple days to a cabin 311 00:17:51,613 --> 00:17:53,156 in the hills in Michigan. 312 00:17:54,866 --> 00:17:56,343 And I found it to be a really valuable time, 313 00:17:56,367 --> 00:17:59,329 and what I use it for is to get some good rehearsal time in 314 00:17:59,621 --> 00:18:02,957 where the distractions from the school are not here. 315 00:18:03,249 --> 00:18:05,376 You know, we're completely away. 316 00:18:12,175 --> 00:18:14,070 Cell phones don't typically work in the mountains, 317 00:18:14,094 --> 00:18:15,279 so kids are completely cut off 318 00:18:15,303 --> 00:18:17,013 and they have to be in the moment. 319 00:18:24,562 --> 00:18:27,565 I think what's more important is how the kids come together. 320 00:18:27,857 --> 00:18:29,567 - Caitlyn our towels are going right here. 321 00:18:30,985 --> 00:18:33,113 I forgot a towel! 322 00:18:36,574 --> 00:18:37,814 I don't believe people can make 323 00:18:38,076 --> 00:18:40,495 really good music together unless they love, 324 00:18:40,787 --> 00:18:44,666 and trust the people that they're making music with. 325 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:46,118 OK, can we make a rule, like, 326 00:18:46,251 --> 00:18:48,211 not talk about school, and not talk about college, 327 00:18:48,294 --> 00:18:50,421 and not talk about anything this entire weekend? 328 00:18:55,051 --> 00:18:56,052 - Alright. 329 00:18:56,344 --> 00:18:58,221 Plates, napkins, forks, salad. 330 00:18:58,513 --> 00:19:01,349 Veggie, meat, meat. 331 00:19:01,641 --> 00:19:03,476 Meat, meat. 332 00:19:03,768 --> 00:19:05,079 - We're with the same group of people 333 00:19:05,103 --> 00:19:07,730 for 48 hours straight, and we see people 334 00:19:08,022 --> 00:19:09,302 at the best, and at their worst, 335 00:19:09,399 --> 00:19:13,862 and at the pinnacle of what we're doing is the music making. 336 00:19:14,154 --> 00:19:16,656 How do you make music musical? 337 00:19:22,954 --> 00:19:24,247 Now add yours in. 338 00:19:27,834 --> 00:19:29,335 So you got the notes, great. 339 00:19:29,627 --> 00:19:30,670 Is it in tune? 340 00:19:30,962 --> 00:19:32,356 Are you breathing in the right place? 341 00:19:32,380 --> 00:19:34,424 Is it, are you phrasing correctly? 342 00:19:34,716 --> 00:19:37,093 Is the language pronounced correctly? 343 00:19:38,178 --> 00:19:39,178 Basses. 344 00:19:39,429 --> 00:19:41,029 It is the job of the teacher to make sure 345 00:19:41,097 --> 00:19:43,141 you're addressing all of those issues 346 00:19:43,433 --> 00:19:44,726 up and down the spectrum. 347 00:19:45,018 --> 00:19:47,687 So that every kid remains engaged and challenged. 348 00:19:47,979 --> 00:19:48,979 And. 349 00:20:15,215 --> 00:20:18,051 Sopranos join. 350 00:20:26,976 --> 00:20:28,144 OK stop. 351 00:20:28,937 --> 00:20:30,647 Get your hands out, because you're almost 352 00:20:30,939 --> 00:20:32,732 two beats ahead of us. 353 00:20:33,024 --> 00:20:34,442 All of you. 354 00:20:34,734 --> 00:20:37,320 It's very, very slow. 355 00:20:38,029 --> 00:20:41,366 Beat, and sing, and. 356 00:21:11,980 --> 00:21:14,232 And that's where we're stopping, not bad work. 357 00:21:16,734 --> 00:21:19,988 They're unable to focus for extended periods of time. 358 00:21:21,197 --> 00:21:23,237 You know, it's like 20 minute segments, and they're. 359 00:21:26,494 --> 00:21:28,371 For me, it was how much can I get accomplished 360 00:21:28,663 --> 00:21:30,103 and keep their focus and get it done? 361 00:21:30,331 --> 00:21:32,041 And then let's change our minds 362 00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:33,686 and do something that requires a different 363 00:21:33,710 --> 00:21:35,461 type of the brain activity, so that I can 364 00:21:35,753 --> 00:21:37,672 get them back to doing what I want to do. 365 00:21:37,964 --> 00:21:40,508 Without speaking, or lip syncing 366 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,345 get your log in the order of your birthdays, 367 00:21:44,637 --> 00:21:46,806 and ready, and go. 368 00:21:56,107 --> 00:21:59,152 Hands in the center of the circle, and grab someone's hands. 369 00:21:59,444 --> 00:22:01,154 You're going to untangle. 370 00:22:01,446 --> 00:22:03,906 All of those activities in some way or another 371 00:22:04,198 --> 00:22:05,783 were team building activities. 372 00:22:06,075 --> 00:22:10,038 Put on everything in the bag correctly, go. 373 00:22:16,878 --> 00:22:19,672 Pose, pose, pose. 374 00:22:50,161 --> 00:22:51,788 And nice, and. 375 00:22:53,915 --> 00:22:55,291 Too loud tenors. 376 00:22:59,921 --> 00:23:01,005 Stop. 377 00:23:01,297 --> 00:23:05,051 I think you are all destined to be crooners 378 00:23:05,343 --> 00:23:07,929 singing wonderful jazz and 1920's music 379 00:23:08,221 --> 00:23:10,932 cause you just take your liberties. 380 00:23:11,224 --> 00:23:12,725 You just love that sound tenors 381 00:23:13,017 --> 00:23:14,203 and I'm really excited about that, 382 00:23:14,227 --> 00:23:15,645 but you slow us down, this is like 383 00:23:15,937 --> 00:23:17,522 piece number five now where you're 384 00:23:17,814 --> 00:23:20,608 so in love with your own sound. 385 00:23:28,783 --> 00:23:33,287 Really, 386 00:23:36,165 --> 00:23:39,085 And you're doing this, you're not talking 387 00:23:39,377 --> 00:23:41,003 while I'm instructing. 388 00:23:42,839 --> 00:23:45,258 Listening does not involve speaking. 389 00:23:45,550 --> 00:23:47,260 I don't know if we have a society 390 00:23:47,552 --> 00:23:49,470 that knows what listening really is. 391 00:23:49,762 --> 00:23:53,391 We don't do a lot of listening anymore, 392 00:23:53,683 --> 00:23:54,934 I don't think. 393 00:23:55,226 --> 00:23:56,811 Good, your pencils out please. 394 00:23:57,103 --> 00:23:58,938 One, two, three, measure four. 395 00:23:59,230 --> 00:24:02,567 Write swell, as in a swell of a wave, 396 00:24:02,859 --> 00:24:04,694 or a swell of a crescendo. 397 00:24:04,986 --> 00:24:08,072 Then, starting in measure 14. 398 00:24:25,089 --> 00:24:26,632 I want you to write anticipation. 399 00:24:26,924 --> 00:24:28,217 We walk the streets of Disneyland 400 00:24:28,509 --> 00:24:32,555 and music is constantly playing over the loudspeakers. 401 00:24:32,847 --> 00:24:35,183 We go to football games, or basketball games, 402 00:24:35,475 --> 00:24:37,810 and while the team is warming up, music is playing. 403 00:24:38,102 --> 00:24:40,771 Music has become background, background, background. 404 00:24:41,063 --> 00:24:43,691 So, when you bring it to the foreground 405 00:24:43,983 --> 00:24:45,860 in an artistic way, and you're asking people 406 00:24:46,152 --> 00:24:47,945 to learn from it, and pay attention to it, 407 00:24:48,237 --> 00:24:50,865 and to structure it, and make it great, 408 00:24:51,157 --> 00:24:53,701 people struggle with that because it is not, 409 00:24:53,993 --> 00:24:57,330 right now, culturally what we're doing. 410 00:24:57,622 --> 00:25:00,124 There's not a rotten kid in this bunch. 411 00:25:00,416 --> 00:25:02,835 There's not one of them who deliberately 412 00:25:03,127 --> 00:25:05,713 is trying to, you know, stick that splinter 413 00:25:06,005 --> 00:25:08,591 under my nail and not listen. 414 00:25:11,093 --> 00:25:15,848 It's that they haven't learned that that's part of the game. 415 00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:24,649 Diminuendo was great. 416 00:25:24,941 --> 00:25:26,943 Really well balanced, and well timed. 417 00:25:27,235 --> 00:25:29,028 OK, I'm not gonna give you comments anymore, 418 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,740 that are compliments or otherwise, it's no point. 419 00:25:33,032 --> 00:25:34,272 You leave and you tell everyone 420 00:25:34,325 --> 00:25:35,636 that I never take time to tell you anything good. 421 00:25:35,660 --> 00:25:37,995 You talk over everything I say, how do you know? 422 00:25:38,287 --> 00:25:40,248 You have to want to hear something. 423 00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:42,416 It was a great diminuendo. 424 00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:44,752 And you have to be willing to change. 425 00:25:50,341 --> 00:25:51,467 Space. 426 00:26:03,229 --> 00:26:05,356 Here we go, Chanteuses Adios. 427 00:26:31,549 --> 00:26:34,176 What is next for us? 428 00:26:36,387 --> 00:26:38,431 What do you want from this year? 429 00:26:42,435 --> 00:26:43,978 I know what I want. 430 00:26:45,605 --> 00:26:47,315 Do you know what you want? 431 00:26:50,818 --> 00:26:53,863 - I realize that what I want is this. 432 00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:56,198 What we have right now, and I feel like 433 00:26:56,490 --> 00:26:58,450 I don't know if I'm the only one feeling this way, 434 00:26:58,492 --> 00:27:01,537 but the feeling in the room right now is really good. 435 00:27:02,413 --> 00:27:05,458 That's important to me, cause I really, really love choir. 436 00:27:05,750 --> 00:27:07,185 - Think about how much better it could've been 437 00:27:07,209 --> 00:27:09,962 if, like, every like 30 seconds that there was 438 00:27:10,254 --> 00:27:12,381 like nonsense going on, if that wasn't there, 439 00:27:12,673 --> 00:27:15,009 like how much greater it would've been. 440 00:27:15,301 --> 00:27:19,221 - I had a great teacher passed away. 441 00:27:19,513 --> 00:27:21,533 She taught me many things, but one of the things she used 442 00:27:21,557 --> 00:27:25,686 to say is, "Why not give yourself goosebumps everyday?" 443 00:27:27,438 --> 00:27:30,066 That's what I want. 444 00:27:30,358 --> 00:27:33,402 I want what we're doing to feel so great, 445 00:27:33,694 --> 00:27:36,864 and so right that I get goosebumps everyday. 446 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:39,909 And that you do too. 447 00:27:44,246 --> 00:27:47,458 They get the message, they get the idea. 448 00:27:50,169 --> 00:27:52,004 Now they have to make that happen. 449 00:28:09,146 --> 00:28:11,107 I have music for you. 450 00:28:12,066 --> 00:28:13,192 Here's the "Ave Maria." 451 00:28:13,484 --> 00:28:15,069 There's a copy for everybody. 452 00:28:16,070 --> 00:28:18,489 Here's the "Exultate Justi." 453 00:28:18,781 --> 00:28:20,101 You can pick these up later today, 454 00:28:20,282 --> 00:28:21,282 cause they're all... 455 00:28:22,201 --> 00:28:25,371 We rely almost entirely on fundraising 456 00:28:25,663 --> 00:28:28,624 to provide almost everything that we have here. 457 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:34,046 - Our budget is over 7,000 dollars a year 458 00:28:34,338 --> 00:28:36,716 for sheet music alone. 459 00:28:37,007 --> 00:28:38,318 We need to raise money for the choir 460 00:28:38,342 --> 00:28:41,220 because the only thing that the district pays for 461 00:28:41,512 --> 00:28:43,806 is the salary of Mr. Huls, and the salary 462 00:28:44,098 --> 00:28:46,851 of Ina Ganelis, our accompanist. 463 00:28:47,727 --> 00:28:49,979 And everything else in this choir room 464 00:28:50,271 --> 00:28:52,022 is paid for by money that we raise, 465 00:28:52,314 --> 00:28:53,858 be it the chair that I'm sitting in, 466 00:28:54,150 --> 00:28:58,195 or the risers, the music stands, the bookshelves. 467 00:28:58,487 --> 00:29:00,406 - When their budget cuts have come through 468 00:29:00,698 --> 00:29:02,074 no one has ever gone to the board 469 00:29:02,366 --> 00:29:03,646 and said, "Oh, well, sorry we're 470 00:29:03,868 --> 00:29:06,078 "not gonna teach math this year. 471 00:29:06,370 --> 00:29:07,650 "We're not gonna teach chemistry. 472 00:29:07,830 --> 00:29:09,915 "Sorry, no more chemistry classes, 473 00:29:10,207 --> 00:29:11,601 "we just don't have the budget for it." 474 00:29:11,625 --> 00:29:13,919 It's always the arts that go. 475 00:29:17,173 --> 00:29:18,591 Hello everybody. 476 00:29:18,883 --> 00:29:20,009 My name is Heather Graham, 477 00:29:20,301 --> 00:29:22,511 I'd like to welcome everybody to Sweet Serenade. 478 00:29:22,803 --> 00:29:24,972 We encourage you all to get up, mingle, 479 00:29:25,264 --> 00:29:27,850 have some sweet treats and check out the auction. 480 00:29:28,142 --> 00:29:31,353 - The Sweet Serenade is our biggest fundraiser of the year. 481 00:29:31,645 --> 00:29:33,565 Parents get to shop around at the silent auction, 482 00:29:33,856 --> 00:29:36,066 you know, we get donations from local businesses. 483 00:29:36,358 --> 00:29:37,753 We're fortunate to be in a community 484 00:29:37,777 --> 00:29:39,904 that really supports the arts. 485 00:29:40,863 --> 00:29:43,866 I have just brought out some Bach. 486 00:29:47,077 --> 00:29:48,637 This is a piece of music that this group 487 00:29:48,913 --> 00:29:50,998 of students has never seen before. 488 00:29:52,583 --> 00:29:54,001 And I'm going to give it to them. 489 00:29:55,795 --> 00:29:57,963 And they're gonna have 10 minutes 490 00:29:58,255 --> 00:30:01,091 to learn this piece of music on their own. 491 00:30:03,552 --> 00:30:04,738 Do any of you know this piece? 492 00:30:04,762 --> 00:30:05,971 No. 493 00:30:06,263 --> 00:30:07,741 - Have we ever sung this piece before? 494 00:30:07,765 --> 00:30:08,474 No. 495 00:30:08,766 --> 00:30:10,100 Yes, we know it. 496 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,063 - Pay no attention to the liars in the group. 497 00:30:15,105 --> 00:30:16,124 Cause they are simply saying, "Yes," 498 00:30:16,148 --> 00:30:17,942 because they don't want to do this. 499 00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:21,362 So, we'll see you back here in about 10 minutes. 500 00:30:35,751 --> 00:30:38,212 - Should we start together at the beginning of the page? 501 00:31:40,566 --> 00:31:42,286 I've always been very curious about science. 502 00:31:42,443 --> 00:31:44,612 I love it, it's great, I'm taking physics right now. 503 00:31:44,904 --> 00:31:46,405 It's such a great class. 504 00:31:47,239 --> 00:31:49,366 Probably my favorite subject. 505 00:31:49,658 --> 00:31:50,951 That, or math. 506 00:31:51,243 --> 00:31:53,037 What's the homework situation like Isaac? 507 00:31:53,329 --> 00:31:54,330 - Good amount. 508 00:31:54,622 --> 00:31:56,624 Maybe just watch a short show. 509 00:31:56,916 --> 00:31:59,001 - I'd like to grow up to be a doctor. 510 00:31:59,293 --> 00:32:02,046 I got introduced to the hospitals 511 00:32:02,338 --> 00:32:04,006 and surgeries and things 512 00:32:04,298 --> 00:32:05,925 when I had the surgeries on my arms. 513 00:32:06,216 --> 00:32:09,595 In ninth, mostly ninth grade. 514 00:32:09,887 --> 00:32:11,197 If you want to see, I'll show you the scars. 515 00:32:11,221 --> 00:32:12,932 They're pretty nice, I'm proud of them. 516 00:32:17,186 --> 00:32:21,273 I have these, I had a couple surgeries on my arms 517 00:32:21,565 --> 00:32:23,901 cause I had an auto-immune disease 518 00:32:24,193 --> 00:32:25,473 that kinda messed with my bones. 519 00:32:25,527 --> 00:32:28,113 And they operated, and then I broke my arms, 520 00:32:28,405 --> 00:32:31,116 so I was in a sling on one or the other arm 521 00:32:31,408 --> 00:32:34,828 for about over a year. 522 00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:40,542 I used to consider myself a band person. 523 00:32:40,834 --> 00:32:42,711 I play trombone, I still love trombone. 524 00:32:49,176 --> 00:32:53,430 I now think that choir is now my main focus in music. 525 00:33:00,229 --> 00:33:03,399 It can't be compared to anything else that I've done. 526 00:33:07,111 --> 00:33:09,279 The feeling that you get when everyone sings together, 527 00:33:09,571 --> 00:33:12,992 it's kind of, you hear it first, 528 00:33:13,283 --> 00:33:16,120 then you feel it, and then when the chord locks into place 529 00:33:22,042 --> 00:33:24,044 it flows over you, and you become immersed in it, 530 00:33:24,336 --> 00:33:26,839 you listen, and you can hear all the littlest things. 531 00:33:27,131 --> 00:33:29,842 Even something that's not a part of the chord. 532 00:33:31,719 --> 00:33:34,346 Your ears just become so much more in tune 533 00:33:34,638 --> 00:33:35,931 with what's going on around you. 534 00:33:36,223 --> 00:33:38,142 It's like it's supernatural hearing. 535 00:33:43,939 --> 00:33:45,125 - You know, sometimes I just wish that 536 00:33:45,149 --> 00:33:47,026 school was easy for me, and it's not. 537 00:33:49,820 --> 00:33:51,256 You know, I'll be like crying, and be like, 538 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,825 "I don't understand like, why I can't be good at math, 539 00:33:55,117 --> 00:33:57,161 "like why am I not good at math?" 540 00:33:57,453 --> 00:33:59,264 And my mom was like, "It's not that you're not good 541 00:33:59,288 --> 00:34:01,623 "at math, you're just better at other things." 542 00:34:03,876 --> 00:34:07,671 I love theater, and I love singing, and I love performing. 543 00:34:07,963 --> 00:34:09,232 You know, I could do performing, 544 00:34:09,256 --> 00:34:11,050 or I could be a dentist, I don't really know, 545 00:34:11,341 --> 00:34:12,968 but I do love performing, so I guess 546 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:14,720 if I would say that I have a dream, 547 00:34:15,012 --> 00:34:17,431 then it would be something to do with performing. 548 00:34:17,723 --> 00:34:19,725 - I think that's probably a big struggle 549 00:34:20,017 --> 00:34:21,697 for many kids is finding where they fit in, 550 00:34:21,977 --> 00:34:23,163 where they're identity is because they're in 551 00:34:23,187 --> 00:34:25,647 this kind of limbo world right now. 552 00:34:25,939 --> 00:34:29,985 - Teenagers are not fully formed people. 553 00:34:33,405 --> 00:34:34,823 I mean, there's so much going on, 554 00:34:35,115 --> 00:34:38,577 it's like you have AP's, and your social life. 555 00:34:39,620 --> 00:34:42,372 - Anytime that you get teenage guys and girls together 556 00:34:42,664 --> 00:34:46,293 there's gonna be like, there's gonna be a struggle. 557 00:34:46,585 --> 00:34:48,170 - The senior boys, 558 00:34:50,214 --> 00:34:51,694 it does seem like they care sometimes, 559 00:34:51,799 --> 00:34:53,967 but to me, sometimes it seems like they don't care. 560 00:34:54,259 --> 00:34:56,678 The other day I looked over and we were doing warm ups, 561 00:34:56,970 --> 00:34:59,098 and they were scratching each others' chins. 562 00:34:59,389 --> 00:35:03,018 I don't know why, and it just seemed very odd. 563 00:35:03,310 --> 00:35:04,662 I don't know, it just, I don't understand 564 00:35:04,686 --> 00:35:06,772 what's going on in their brains sometimes. 565 00:35:07,064 --> 00:35:10,025 - Choir girls are amongst the scariest people in the world. 566 00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:13,070 Cause they're competitive, and, you know, if you anger them 567 00:35:13,362 --> 00:35:15,155 they will draw claws, they're like. 568 00:35:15,447 --> 00:35:16,716 - When guys are like young, they're gonna 569 00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:18,867 be more like rowdy and stuff. 570 00:35:21,286 --> 00:35:23,122 Then again, the girls are extremely talkative, 571 00:35:23,413 --> 00:35:24,933 so girls will just talk and talk and talk. 572 00:35:24,957 --> 00:35:26,959 Then that kinda gets in the way of, you know, 573 00:35:27,251 --> 00:35:28,335 trying to work and focus. 574 00:35:28,627 --> 00:35:31,213 - They're distracted sometimes, by each other. 575 00:35:31,505 --> 00:35:35,551 And that seems to pull them off task very, very easily. 576 00:35:35,843 --> 00:35:37,177 Here we go. 577 00:35:39,179 --> 00:35:40,889 It's your break between classes, 578 00:35:41,181 --> 00:35:43,559 so if you wanna take it up with this, then that's fine. 579 00:35:45,686 --> 00:35:47,563 Stay in your sections right now. 580 00:36:01,493 --> 00:36:03,253 - I don't have any other classes with Eloise. 581 00:36:03,537 --> 00:36:05,581 We don't even share the same interests that much. 582 00:36:05,873 --> 00:36:08,125 Like I'm into sports, she's not. 583 00:36:08,417 --> 00:36:12,296 She's into journalism, that's like so not what I enjoy. 584 00:36:12,588 --> 00:36:14,715 But music let's us have something have something 585 00:36:15,007 --> 00:36:17,509 to like really connect, or like do. 586 00:36:22,598 --> 00:36:24,398 - Yeah, it is scary thinking he might get hurt 587 00:36:24,641 --> 00:36:25,893 because he did get hurt. 588 00:36:26,185 --> 00:36:30,564 - I broke my foot in my league finals match. 589 00:36:32,107 --> 00:36:33,209 I broke my foot in three places, 590 00:36:33,233 --> 00:36:34,818 and detached a ligament. 591 00:36:35,986 --> 00:36:37,738 And I had surgery, and I was on crutches 592 00:36:38,030 --> 00:36:39,573 for like two and a half months. 593 00:36:39,865 --> 00:36:41,426 - There's a video of him breaking his foot. 594 00:36:41,450 --> 00:36:43,327 - There is a video of me breaking my foot. 595 00:36:47,247 --> 00:36:49,541 - Spencer wants to stay with me forever, 596 00:36:49,833 --> 00:36:51,593 and we want to be together forever, whatever, 597 00:36:51,627 --> 00:36:54,588 but he just like knows that that's not realistic, 598 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,007 and probably not going to happen, 599 00:36:57,299 --> 00:37:00,177 and I have like a problem with that reality. 600 00:37:00,469 --> 00:37:02,304 Like, making myself realize that. 601 00:37:02,596 --> 00:37:03,722 I don't want to realize it. 602 00:37:04,014 --> 00:37:06,350 Have a seat for the announcements. 603 00:37:06,642 --> 00:37:09,144 - Hi, I'm Eloise, I'm a junior in Madrigals, 604 00:37:09,436 --> 00:37:10,437 and I'm running for VP. 605 00:37:10,729 --> 00:37:12,290 - I think I would make a great vice president 606 00:37:12,314 --> 00:37:14,524 because I love choir and I love music. 607 00:37:14,816 --> 00:37:16,902 - I have officers, and so we elect 608 00:37:17,194 --> 00:37:19,738 two juniors to be vice presidents, 609 00:37:20,030 --> 00:37:22,074 and then they move up to being choir presidents 610 00:37:22,366 --> 00:37:24,117 their senior year basically. 611 00:37:24,409 --> 00:37:25,553 This year I decided, "Well, we have 612 00:37:25,577 --> 00:37:27,120 "a television screen up there. 613 00:37:27,412 --> 00:37:28,972 "It would be great if they made videos." 614 00:37:29,081 --> 00:37:31,083 - I'm committed and dedicated 615 00:37:31,375 --> 00:37:32,626 to the Samohi performing arts. 616 00:37:32,918 --> 00:37:34,798 - And in my mind I was picturing that they would 617 00:37:34,878 --> 00:37:36,797 do something very presidential like. 618 00:37:37,089 --> 00:37:39,549 Sitting and talking about their qualifications 619 00:37:39,841 --> 00:37:41,236 and why they'd be a good candidate, and... 620 00:37:41,260 --> 00:37:43,428 - Sup dawgs, it's B-heart in the cut, 621 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,139 and I don't want this choir program falling in a rut. 622 00:37:46,431 --> 00:37:48,934 - Out of the five that I got turned in 623 00:37:49,226 --> 00:37:52,062 I got one like that, and I got four 624 00:37:52,354 --> 00:37:53,772 who created a funny ad. 625 00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:57,484 The kids were very creative, but they had 626 00:37:57,776 --> 00:37:59,903 very little to do with being president. 627 00:38:00,195 --> 00:38:02,155 - Remember dawgs to vote Bret Hart on your ballot. 628 00:38:02,322 --> 00:38:04,242 - You could probably ask a lot of those students, 629 00:38:04,491 --> 00:38:06,371 "If Mr. Huls had a choice between this and this, 630 00:38:06,410 --> 00:38:07,119 "which would he do?" 631 00:38:07,411 --> 00:38:08,638 And they would know the answer to that, 632 00:38:08,662 --> 00:38:11,248 because I'm not, I don't surprise people. 633 00:38:12,124 --> 00:38:13,667 What surprises me about them 634 00:38:13,959 --> 00:38:15,961 is they might know the answer to that, 635 00:38:16,253 --> 00:38:19,006 but that doesn't affect their decision making. 636 00:38:19,298 --> 00:38:21,633 - More tea Mrs. Penguin? 637 00:38:21,925 --> 00:38:23,260 - Vote for Isaac for VP! 638 00:38:37,691 --> 00:38:40,193 - They still haven't gotten the idea 639 00:38:40,485 --> 00:38:43,322 that it's a group effort, entirely yet. 640 00:38:43,613 --> 00:38:46,033 There's still one or two that are unfocused 641 00:38:46,325 --> 00:38:49,786 or straggling behind, or left behind in some cases. 642 00:38:50,078 --> 00:38:52,039 Who's leading today? 643 00:38:54,249 --> 00:38:58,795 OK, 644 00:38:59,087 --> 00:39:00,630 You know the drill, OK. 645 00:39:00,922 --> 00:39:02,299 So, ready tonic root position. 646 00:39:02,591 --> 00:39:03,717 No, no, no we're gonna sing 647 00:39:04,009 --> 00:39:06,053 two things together, so tonic root position, 648 00:39:06,345 --> 00:39:07,345 and then what? 649 00:39:07,512 --> 00:39:12,225 And then, dominant seven 650 00:39:12,809 --> 00:39:13,935 No. 651 00:39:14,227 --> 00:39:15,937 Dominant seventh and then you do. 652 00:39:21,985 --> 00:39:24,279 I'm just trying to trick you. 653 00:39:27,407 --> 00:39:30,535 - Or you haven't been paying attention in the first place. 654 00:39:32,371 --> 00:39:34,206 You have the tools you need, 655 00:39:34,498 --> 00:39:37,834 but we always want to be given things. 656 00:39:38,126 --> 00:39:39,395 The Chinese proverb where you would 657 00:39:39,419 --> 00:39:41,630 teach a man fish, you're still at the, 658 00:39:41,922 --> 00:39:43,882 "Just give me the fish." 659 00:39:44,174 --> 00:39:46,635 I don't care to know any of the other stuff, 660 00:39:46,927 --> 00:39:49,137 and you should push yourself to learn how to fish 661 00:39:49,429 --> 00:39:51,269 because then you have many more options to you. 662 00:39:51,306 --> 00:39:53,225 You know, you can have halibut, or mahi mahi, 663 00:39:53,517 --> 00:39:57,854 or swordfish, or sardines, I mean the options are endless. 664 00:39:58,146 --> 00:40:01,066 It's almost like as teenagers you all are very, 665 00:40:01,358 --> 00:40:02,984 you all try very hard to break the rules. 666 00:40:03,276 --> 00:40:03,985 You know, it's kinda like you're, 667 00:40:04,277 --> 00:40:05,946 "Can I get away with this? 668 00:40:06,238 --> 00:40:07,823 "Can I push curfew just a little later?" 669 00:40:08,115 --> 00:40:11,118 But when we get to music you're very much about those rules. 670 00:40:11,410 --> 00:40:13,210 "It's a half note, I'm gonna sing a half note, 671 00:40:13,370 --> 00:40:14,371 "and I'm gonna go on." 672 00:40:14,663 --> 00:40:16,063 And so I want you to break the rules 673 00:40:16,123 --> 00:40:17,683 here a little bit more, and I want you to be, 674 00:40:17,707 --> 00:40:18,907 have a little more elasticity. 675 00:40:19,126 --> 00:40:20,460 Music has to have elasticity. 676 00:40:20,752 --> 00:40:22,712 If you even think about what this text means, 677 00:40:23,004 --> 00:40:26,925 "Oh, please just let me cry, 678 00:40:27,217 --> 00:40:29,136 "let me lament, let me be sad." 679 00:40:29,428 --> 00:40:32,222 So, if you were just saying that in English you wouldn't go, 680 00:40:32,514 --> 00:40:33,741 "Please let me cry, please let me cry, 681 00:40:33,765 --> 00:40:35,285 "please let me cry, please let me cry." 682 00:40:36,309 --> 00:40:40,939 Let me cry, let me lament, leave me be. 683 00:40:44,860 --> 00:40:46,236 - Not many of the kids in Madrigals 684 00:40:46,528 --> 00:40:49,156 know about my situation. 685 00:40:49,448 --> 00:40:52,909 We recently got evicted from our apartment. 686 00:41:00,709 --> 00:41:02,419 And it's so hard. 687 00:41:10,302 --> 00:41:11,344 I'm sorry. 688 00:41:18,143 --> 00:41:22,230 Going into choir relieves my stress. 689 00:41:22,522 --> 00:41:26,026 It helps me go through my day. 690 00:41:26,318 --> 00:41:29,196 It brightens my day. 691 00:41:29,488 --> 00:41:31,990 It's just, it just makes me happy. 692 00:41:34,868 --> 00:41:36,745 Choir has done a lot for me. 693 00:41:45,253 --> 00:41:48,131 - When I left grad school my mentor says, 694 00:41:48,423 --> 00:41:52,093 "You need to do an all pop music concert sometime." 695 00:41:52,385 --> 00:41:53,385 And I said, "Why?" 696 00:41:53,637 --> 00:41:55,077 And he said, "Because it scares you." 697 00:42:01,269 --> 00:42:04,022 Cafe Samo's kind of a variety show. 698 00:42:04,314 --> 00:42:08,318 I get that most of them, or at least many of them, 699 00:42:08,610 --> 00:42:12,948 don't have Mozart or Bach on their mp3 players. 700 00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:14,509 So, it's kind of a gimme to them. 701 00:42:14,533 --> 00:42:15,784 It's like, "This is your night 702 00:42:16,076 --> 00:42:17,619 "to do what you like to do." 703 00:42:17,911 --> 00:42:19,329 - This year there were three of us 704 00:42:19,621 --> 00:42:21,122 who kind of led everything with 705 00:42:21,414 --> 00:42:24,209 the assistance of Mr. Huls when needed. 706 00:42:25,585 --> 00:42:28,004 It is a place for leadership. 707 00:42:28,296 --> 00:42:31,758 What it really also means is more work for me. 708 00:42:42,269 --> 00:42:43,269 Henry. 709 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:50,140 I'm not sure this is very good. 710 00:42:50,318 --> 00:42:51,736 - OK. 711 00:42:52,028 --> 00:42:54,072 So, I don't know they've got to get it together 712 00:42:54,364 --> 00:42:56,408 or they can't go on stage tomorrow night. 713 00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:58,577 - Should you tell them that, or. 714 00:43:00,620 --> 00:43:01,997 - Yeah. 715 00:43:07,586 --> 00:43:08,729 I don't know that can go on stage 716 00:43:08,753 --> 00:43:10,297 like that tomorrow night. 717 00:43:12,132 --> 00:43:13,252 It's just not sounding good. 718 00:43:13,425 --> 00:43:14,902 Because it's right now, it sounds like 719 00:43:14,926 --> 00:43:16,678 something you threw together last minute. 720 00:43:16,970 --> 00:43:18,330 So, I'm not saying that to be mean, 721 00:43:18,471 --> 00:43:20,682 I think you want to be proud of what goes up there. 722 00:43:22,767 --> 00:43:25,437 In the key of D flat. 723 00:43:32,193 --> 00:43:34,529 - Last year, when we did our duet together 724 00:43:34,821 --> 00:43:38,366 at the cafe Samo, we performed a duet from "Wicked." 725 00:43:38,658 --> 00:43:39,993 We both dressed up as girls. 726 00:43:44,372 --> 00:43:45,852 We're gonna try to top that this year. 727 00:43:45,915 --> 00:43:48,293 We're gonna try to do an even better duet this year. 728 00:43:49,085 --> 00:43:51,045 We're probably both gonna dress up as girls again. 729 00:43:51,129 --> 00:43:52,489 Because that seems to be important. 730 00:43:52,714 --> 00:43:54,966 It's seven o'clock. 731 00:44:34,756 --> 00:44:35,876 - We really wanted to do it, 732 00:44:36,007 --> 00:44:37,592 but we just didn't feel prepared. 733 00:44:37,884 --> 00:44:39,260 You need a teleprompter. 734 00:44:40,470 --> 00:44:41,930 - But finally we figured like, 735 00:44:42,222 --> 00:44:44,849 "It's best to not perform it, then not make ourselves freak 736 00:44:45,141 --> 00:44:47,301 "out for everything else that we're doing in the show." 737 00:44:56,861 --> 00:44:57,963 - Good evening ladies and gentlemen. 738 00:44:57,987 --> 00:44:59,656 Welcome to Cafe Samo. 739 00:44:59,948 --> 00:45:01,908 If you like what you see, 740 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,202 I taught them everything they know. 741 00:45:05,578 --> 00:45:09,040 And if you are offended, or you don't like what you see 742 00:45:09,332 --> 00:45:13,086 it's entirely student run, I had nothing to do with it. 743 00:45:20,301 --> 00:45:22,762 There's a misconception in the understanding 744 00:45:23,054 --> 00:45:25,890 of popular music, in that, yes sometimes 745 00:45:26,182 --> 00:45:28,977 it's a bit more casual, but if you're gonna come up here 746 00:45:29,269 --> 00:45:30,645 and do a popular piece of music, 747 00:45:30,937 --> 00:45:33,231 let's talk about it, let's talk about what makes 748 00:45:33,523 --> 00:45:36,234 Adele's voice sound like Adele. 749 00:46:00,633 --> 00:46:02,844 - We were receiving a lot of pressure from people. 750 00:46:03,136 --> 00:46:05,805 We were really nervous, but then we went outside and ran it, 751 00:46:06,097 --> 00:46:09,309 and we ran it some more, and a lot more. 752 00:46:11,269 --> 00:46:12,269 Hi, I'm Isaac. 753 00:46:12,479 --> 00:46:13,980 - Hi I'm Bret. 754 00:46:14,272 --> 00:46:16,152 - And we'll be singing "There's Always A Woman." 755 00:46:16,441 --> 00:46:18,318 I definitely did not feel entirely comfortable 756 00:46:18,610 --> 00:46:21,112 given that the day before we messed up 757 00:46:21,404 --> 00:46:23,239 like 85% of the time. 758 00:46:44,344 --> 00:46:46,304 It was a good time. 759 00:46:49,682 --> 00:46:53,019 Went really well, and I felt good about it. 760 00:46:53,311 --> 00:46:54,854 - I don't know if that was necessarily 761 00:46:55,146 --> 00:46:56,272 a quality performance. 762 00:46:56,564 --> 00:46:58,983 I think it's what they settled for as a quality performance. 763 00:46:59,275 --> 00:47:00,652 That whole thing was rushed, 764 00:47:00,944 --> 00:47:03,029 but I think if they had put the practice time in, 765 00:47:03,321 --> 00:47:05,198 they woulda been relaxed going into it, 766 00:47:05,490 --> 00:47:07,116 and it all woulda been fine. 767 00:47:07,408 --> 00:47:10,453 I think that they are very much caught up with good enough. 768 00:47:10,745 --> 00:47:12,585 - Realistically, I think Mr. Huls' expectations 769 00:47:12,622 --> 00:47:15,333 are very high, and while I think we 770 00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:19,170 can get close to them, I don't think we'll ever be 771 00:47:19,462 --> 00:47:21,172 as good as he wishes. 772 00:47:37,564 --> 00:47:38,857 I believe in complimenting 773 00:47:39,148 --> 00:47:40,275 when they really deserve it. 774 00:47:40,567 --> 00:47:42,652 When they've really done something special. 775 00:47:44,696 --> 00:47:46,131 And it's not because I don't care about them, 776 00:47:46,155 --> 00:47:48,533 it's not because I don't want to build them up. 777 00:47:48,825 --> 00:47:51,035 We're doing these kids a disservice if they believe 778 00:47:51,327 --> 00:47:54,414 that everything they do is incredible. 779 00:47:55,206 --> 00:47:57,208 Girls, let's make it a productive rehearsal. 780 00:47:59,210 --> 00:48:01,337 Once the kids leave my class and go on to college, 781 00:48:01,629 --> 00:48:04,215 or to a job even, that shouldn't be the first time 782 00:48:04,507 --> 00:48:07,176 they've ever heard that something wasn't right. 783 00:48:09,345 --> 00:48:11,264 - It's true that he's never satisfied, 784 00:48:11,556 --> 00:48:13,099 and he tells us that a lot, 785 00:48:13,391 --> 00:48:14,642 that you know, "No matter what 786 00:48:14,934 --> 00:48:15,643 "I'm never gonna be satisfied, 787 00:48:15,935 --> 00:48:17,061 "and you guys know that." 788 00:48:17,353 --> 00:48:18,980 And it gets frustrating sometimes 789 00:48:19,272 --> 00:48:22,150 just because it's so true. 790 00:48:22,442 --> 00:48:25,236 - Huls sent out an email to promising 791 00:48:25,528 --> 00:48:28,448 young singers in his choirs that said, 792 00:48:28,740 --> 00:48:29,925 "If you're not already taking voice lessons 793 00:48:29,949 --> 00:48:31,385 "you probably should because I believe 794 00:48:31,409 --> 00:48:33,328 "that you could be a lot greater than you are." 795 00:48:33,620 --> 00:48:35,121 One, two, three. 796 00:48:39,751 --> 00:48:41,502 - When I was younger, I did have 797 00:48:41,794 --> 00:48:44,172 piano lessons and voice lessons, 798 00:48:44,464 --> 00:48:47,675 but that was only for like, I guess a year. 799 00:48:47,967 --> 00:48:49,886 And my mom said to stop taking them 800 00:48:50,178 --> 00:48:51,387 because you don't need it. 801 00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:52,847 OK, that's in good shape. 802 00:48:53,139 --> 00:48:55,892 It's so much better, but there's still 803 00:48:56,184 --> 00:48:57,518 a little bit of that, you know... 804 00:48:57,810 --> 00:49:00,146 - Not having the advantage of having a tutor 805 00:49:00,438 --> 00:49:02,607 makes me feel I'm like one of those kids 806 00:49:02,899 --> 00:49:05,193 that are isolated, in the corner, 807 00:49:05,485 --> 00:49:07,278 just standing and watching everyone else 808 00:49:07,570 --> 00:49:11,699 just exceed while I'm just sitting there. 809 00:49:11,991 --> 00:49:14,869 - Obviously, people with more money have more privileges. 810 00:49:18,414 --> 00:49:20,750 That's unfortunate that not everyone 811 00:49:21,042 --> 00:49:23,252 can afford the same experience. 812 00:49:23,544 --> 00:49:27,048 - Now we're living with my mom's friend. 813 00:49:27,340 --> 00:49:29,467 Well, yeah friend, who lives like 814 00:49:29,759 --> 00:49:31,719 two houses down from my grandma's house. 815 00:49:32,011 --> 00:49:33,972 We all share one room, so there's like 816 00:49:34,263 --> 00:49:37,684 a huge bed for my mom, and her boyfriend. 817 00:49:37,976 --> 00:49:40,103 And then there's a bunk bed for me, 818 00:49:40,395 --> 00:49:42,438 my brother and I. 819 00:49:42,730 --> 00:49:45,011 It's just like really hard for me to do homework at night. 820 00:49:45,274 --> 00:49:46,543 I'm always getting yelled at like, 821 00:49:46,567 --> 00:49:48,045 "Turn of the light, we want to go to sleep." 822 00:49:48,069 --> 00:49:50,113 Like, and it's only nine o'clock. 823 00:49:50,405 --> 00:49:51,072 Like I just thinking like, 824 00:49:51,364 --> 00:49:53,992 "Where can I go as a backup place." 825 00:49:54,283 --> 00:49:55,952 And then, my mom's like, 826 00:49:56,244 --> 00:49:58,079 "Oh, we'll probably just live in the streets." 827 00:49:58,371 --> 00:50:00,665 No, like no, I don't want to live on the streets, 828 00:50:00,957 --> 00:50:03,334 like are you crazy, I have homework and stuff to do. 829 00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,926 - One week from tomorrow is the Golden State competition. 830 00:50:12,218 --> 00:50:14,512 There are 12 ensembles. 831 00:50:14,804 --> 00:50:17,056 Everyone gets in by audition only. 832 00:50:17,348 --> 00:50:19,809 So, it's really good ensembles. 833 00:50:20,101 --> 00:50:21,686 I hate competition, 834 00:50:21,978 --> 00:50:23,855 even though I'm a competitive person. 835 00:50:26,899 --> 00:50:28,276 I hate competition in the arts 836 00:50:28,568 --> 00:50:30,445 because I don't think everything we do 837 00:50:30,737 --> 00:50:32,572 needs to be a sporting event. 838 00:50:33,656 --> 00:50:35,199 But I do think there are great rewards 839 00:50:35,491 --> 00:50:39,412 that come from pushing yourself. 840 00:50:40,413 --> 00:50:43,041 I've seen how it pushes us all to do more 841 00:50:43,332 --> 00:50:45,252 and to achieve more and I think that's important. 842 00:50:45,334 --> 00:50:49,714 That's the reward for this competition. 843 00:50:53,051 --> 00:50:54,052 We performed "O Magnum" 844 00:50:54,343 --> 00:50:55,743 and we thought it was great, but now 845 00:50:56,012 --> 00:50:58,347 we're running it again, over and over. 846 00:50:58,639 --> 00:51:00,892 We just fixed that, that's the vowel I don't want 847 00:51:01,184 --> 00:51:02,977 eh, I want more oh in that. 848 00:51:03,269 --> 00:51:04,580 - It's kind of discouraging for us 849 00:51:04,604 --> 00:51:07,398 because we felt like we did it really well, 850 00:51:07,690 --> 00:51:09,330 and because he wants to keep working on it 851 00:51:09,484 --> 00:51:11,778 means that we didn't do it perfectly. 852 00:51:12,070 --> 00:51:14,197 And I feel like some of us felt like 853 00:51:14,489 --> 00:51:15,865 we really did do it perfectly. 854 00:51:21,370 --> 00:51:22,914 - No, no, it's one phrase, 855 00:51:23,206 --> 00:51:24,406 it's not note, note, note, OK? 856 00:51:24,582 --> 00:51:26,501 Folks, these are tiny details, 857 00:51:26,793 --> 00:51:29,587 but it's what's gonna separate choirs, OK? 858 00:51:29,879 --> 00:51:31,339 It's more than just notes. 859 00:51:31,631 --> 00:51:32,924 It's more than notes. 860 00:51:33,216 --> 00:51:35,134 For me, if you've reached this bar, 861 00:51:35,426 --> 00:51:36,803 then I'm gonna move the bar here 862 00:51:37,095 --> 00:51:40,181 because after algebra two comes, 863 00:51:40,473 --> 00:51:43,309 you know, calculus, or whatever the progression is for math. 864 00:51:43,601 --> 00:51:44,852 Again from the top page. 865 00:51:45,144 --> 00:51:48,189 Each time stronger, each time more confident. 866 00:51:48,481 --> 00:51:50,858 It's getting better each time guys, keep working. 867 00:51:51,150 --> 00:51:52,294 - We're really used to doing something, 868 00:51:52,318 --> 00:51:54,445 getting it over with, and moving on. 869 00:51:54,737 --> 00:51:56,447 And Huls doesn't move on. 870 00:52:01,577 --> 00:52:02,620 - Back away. 871 00:52:02,912 --> 00:52:04,431 I don't know if we're ever going to be there, 872 00:52:04,455 --> 00:52:06,124 and I don't know if I ever want to be, 873 00:52:06,415 --> 00:52:08,227 or reach it, I think that's part of the journey, 874 00:52:08,251 --> 00:52:09,931 and part of what makes learning incredible. 875 00:52:10,169 --> 00:52:12,329 I want you all to sing the same oo vowel there, fix it. 876 00:52:12,505 --> 00:52:14,173 Always reaching for what can come next, 877 00:52:14,465 --> 00:52:16,509 what can we do next, how can we push kids more? 878 00:52:19,387 --> 00:52:21,222 Without killing them of course, you know. 879 00:52:21,514 --> 00:52:24,392 - I would sort of liken Mr. Huls to my my mother as 880 00:52:24,684 --> 00:52:28,604 they both demand perfection. 881 00:52:31,357 --> 00:52:32,650 - My dad was a truck driver. 882 00:52:34,318 --> 00:52:36,154 He never went to college. 883 00:52:36,445 --> 00:52:38,132 He had this saying he would use over and over again, 884 00:52:38,156 --> 00:52:40,116 "I will sell pencils on a street corner 885 00:52:40,408 --> 00:52:42,368 "so that both my kids go to college." 886 00:52:44,287 --> 00:52:47,874 I was kind of very the dutiful son. 887 00:52:48,166 --> 00:52:50,793 I worked really hard, I wanted them to be proud of me. 888 00:52:51,085 --> 00:52:53,588 I wanted them to not have to shake their heads 889 00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,632 and wonder where they went wrong. 890 00:53:19,238 --> 00:53:20,238 Preston. 891 00:53:20,364 --> 00:53:21,800 - We don't need to hear the word Preston 892 00:53:21,824 --> 00:53:23,701 at the end of every single time we sing it. 893 00:53:23,993 --> 00:53:26,329 It's not OK, and if it's such a bad mistake 894 00:53:26,621 --> 00:53:29,790 then you sing the part that he's supposed to do and fix it. 895 00:53:30,958 --> 00:53:34,462 I'm sorry, it can't always be one person's fault. 896 00:53:35,296 --> 00:53:37,632 - We have problems listening to each other. 897 00:53:37,924 --> 00:53:39,967 We have problems interrupting. 898 00:53:40,259 --> 00:53:42,845 And we also have like musical problems like blending. 899 00:53:43,137 --> 00:53:45,514 - Through my entire time with you this far 900 00:53:45,806 --> 00:53:47,808 it is yet to be entirely focused. 901 00:53:48,100 --> 00:53:50,811 - I think what it is is just the chemistry of the group 902 00:53:51,103 --> 00:53:53,189 because all the juniors are really close. 903 00:53:53,481 --> 00:53:54,523 They mess around. 904 00:53:54,815 --> 00:53:56,295 I think the seniors also at this point 905 00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,694 are also like, "We're done," like. 906 00:54:00,988 --> 00:54:04,242 - It should be a place where they can let go 907 00:54:04,533 --> 00:54:07,828 and feel a little bit less of the riggers of academia. 908 00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,207 On the same token, the way they're letting go 909 00:54:11,499 --> 00:54:14,001 needs to be through the music and not through their 910 00:54:14,293 --> 00:54:16,837 inappropriate behavior and lack of discipline. 911 00:54:17,129 --> 00:54:20,216 Your job is to be present and to be here. 912 00:54:20,508 --> 00:54:21,948 So, if you want to have conversations 913 00:54:22,051 --> 00:54:25,221 those can remain at text messages during passing periods. 914 00:54:25,513 --> 00:54:28,266 Now we're here, this is our time. 915 00:54:28,557 --> 00:54:30,810 - To say the least, it's a little bet tense. 916 00:54:31,102 --> 00:54:33,187 Between the Huls and the choir, yeah. 917 00:54:34,146 --> 00:54:36,148 - All I really want from them is a focused 918 00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,776 50 minute rehearsal a day. 919 00:54:39,068 --> 00:54:40,778 I mean, I am having to remind this class 920 00:54:41,070 --> 00:54:44,282 in my most advanced ensemble to bring their music everyday. 921 00:54:44,573 --> 00:54:47,285 To have a pencil in rehearsal everyday. 922 00:54:49,704 --> 00:54:51,205 Good, same place, not in your... 923 00:54:51,497 --> 00:54:54,250 You wouldn't think about going to your AP Calculus class 924 00:54:54,542 --> 00:54:57,586 without your calculator and your calculus book. 925 00:54:58,796 --> 00:55:02,383 I should not have to do it in my most advanced ensemble. 926 00:55:02,675 --> 00:55:03,926 Get your own Peter. 927 00:55:04,218 --> 00:55:05,803 You're a section leader. 928 00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:11,392 They have so much potential that they fail to live up to, 929 00:55:11,684 --> 00:55:13,477 and they fail to see in themselves. 930 00:55:13,769 --> 00:55:15,369 - As many times as I try to be optimistic 931 00:55:15,521 --> 00:55:17,481 and tell myself like, "No, we really are the best, 932 00:55:17,773 --> 00:55:19,900 "and we can live up to his expectations," 933 00:55:20,192 --> 00:55:22,987 it's hard for me because I feel like we haven't. 934 00:55:23,279 --> 00:55:25,114 - In terms of being conductor he's doing, 935 00:55:25,406 --> 00:55:29,118 I think, everything he can, 936 00:55:29,410 --> 00:55:32,747 but I don't think he's a child therapist. 937 00:55:33,039 --> 00:55:35,583 So, I'm hoping that we'll just figure it out. 938 00:55:39,295 --> 00:55:41,589 - There are moments where I have to question 939 00:55:41,881 --> 00:55:44,717 whether I'm being effective, 940 00:55:45,009 --> 00:55:48,346 or am I just fighting a losing battle? 941 00:55:50,431 --> 00:55:52,511 You question whether this is what you're meant to do. 942 00:55:52,683 --> 00:55:53,843 Should I continue doing this? 943 00:55:53,976 --> 00:55:56,228 Is there another path for me? 944 00:56:00,232 --> 00:56:02,026 What's really interesting to me 945 00:56:02,318 --> 00:56:06,072 is that whenever I'm really in that dark place 946 00:56:06,364 --> 00:56:09,617 I get something, it's strange how it happens. 947 00:56:09,909 --> 00:56:11,309 A parent will write a letter saying, 948 00:56:11,452 --> 00:56:14,163 "You've really spoken to my son through music, 949 00:56:14,455 --> 00:56:15,915 "and that's been incredible." 950 00:56:16,207 --> 00:56:19,043 Or I'll get a note about a concert that they attended. 951 00:56:19,335 --> 00:56:21,796 Or whatever those are, there's little shining 952 00:56:22,088 --> 00:56:26,217 little pieces that come back to me every once in awhile, 953 00:56:26,509 --> 00:56:29,095 outta nowhere, and they always come to me 954 00:56:29,387 --> 00:56:30,805 when I'm really in that place, 955 00:56:31,097 --> 00:56:32,973 and I don't know how that happens. 956 00:56:33,265 --> 00:56:35,976 But those things put me back on track. 957 00:56:38,270 --> 00:56:39,980 I can't rely on that. 958 00:56:41,399 --> 00:56:42,639 I have to stop and force myself 959 00:56:42,817 --> 00:56:45,986 to look at all the good, and the things I have accomplished. 960 00:56:56,372 --> 00:56:58,541 - Golden State is a whole different realm. 961 00:56:58,833 --> 00:57:00,209 The choirs that are competing there 962 00:57:00,501 --> 00:57:05,089 are absolutely fantastic, and very musically talented. 963 00:57:06,590 --> 00:57:08,110 We definitely have a chance at winning, 964 00:57:08,259 --> 00:57:10,177 but I'm not trying to get my hopes up. 965 00:57:10,803 --> 00:57:12,012 They have been a big fish 966 00:57:12,304 --> 00:57:14,849 in a small pond situation. 967 00:57:15,141 --> 00:57:17,268 Though, that is fine for here, 968 00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,400 I don't think that serves them in a life lesson 969 00:57:19,562 --> 00:57:21,230 because sooner or later they're gonna be 970 00:57:21,522 --> 00:57:23,482 a small fish in a big pond, and they're gonna have 971 00:57:23,524 --> 00:57:25,901 to still find a way to rise to the top. 972 00:57:37,246 --> 00:57:38,390 Alright, what things are you hearing, 973 00:57:38,414 --> 00:57:40,249 and what things do you want to improve upon? 974 00:57:41,417 --> 00:57:42,126 Aliza. 975 00:57:42,418 --> 00:57:43,603 - I think we've gotten to the point 976 00:57:43,627 --> 00:57:44,813 where we know all of the pieces well, 977 00:57:44,837 --> 00:57:46,505 so I think now we really can just 978 00:57:46,797 --> 00:57:48,174 go with what you conduct. 979 00:57:48,466 --> 00:57:49,466 - And have fun. 980 00:57:49,717 --> 00:57:51,557 The reason you're in choir is to enjoy singing, 981 00:57:51,802 --> 00:57:53,721 I would hope that's why you're here. 982 00:57:54,013 --> 00:57:55,740 I mean these aren't the coolest people in school 983 00:57:55,764 --> 00:57:57,183 to be hanging out, I mean. 984 00:57:57,475 --> 00:57:59,185 Woh, woh, woh. 985 00:58:04,231 --> 00:58:09,153 - And having fun is the result of hard work, right? 986 00:58:17,453 --> 00:58:19,173 Just make sure you're really standing poised 987 00:58:19,246 --> 00:58:20,766 and ready to show them what you can do. 988 00:58:20,998 --> 00:58:23,542 We can do this, Michael, here we go. 989 01:00:51,315 --> 01:00:53,317 If you ever been in the ocean, and a wave comes 990 01:00:53,609 --> 01:00:55,409 that's just the rolling ones that just come by 991 01:00:55,527 --> 01:00:58,489 and lift you up a little bit, and for a brief moment 992 01:00:58,781 --> 01:01:00,741 you're in control, but you're also out of control 993 01:01:01,033 --> 01:01:03,243 and you kind of have to just let it be 994 01:01:03,535 --> 01:01:05,816 and ride the wave until it sets you back down on the sand, 995 01:01:05,996 --> 01:01:07,396 and then it picks you back up again. 996 01:01:07,581 --> 01:01:10,959 I think that's probably the sensation for me of conducting. 997 01:01:21,011 --> 01:01:24,139 When I can make just the tiniest little shift in my gesture, 998 01:01:24,431 --> 01:01:27,851 and things change, and I see that they hear it change, 999 01:01:28,143 --> 01:01:29,463 and they know how special that is, 1000 01:01:29,645 --> 01:01:32,439 and I can see it in their body language. 1001 01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,568 The kids, their eyes get big, they get the magic 1002 01:01:36,860 --> 01:01:39,905 for that little moment, that's pretty amazing. 1003 01:02:24,199 --> 01:02:24,867 Please sit tight, 1004 01:02:25,159 --> 01:02:26,159 and we'll get our awards, 1005 01:02:26,368 --> 01:02:27,688 and we'll wrap up a great morning. 1006 01:02:27,786 --> 01:02:28,786 Thank you. 1007 01:02:32,374 --> 01:02:35,085 OK, great, great results. 1008 01:02:35,377 --> 01:02:37,296 Some very, very close traditionally 1009 01:02:37,588 --> 01:02:39,631 the top five choirs in Golden State 1010 01:02:39,923 --> 01:02:42,092 are eligible immediately to be a part of 1011 01:02:42,384 --> 01:02:44,178 Golden State next year. 1012 01:02:44,470 --> 01:02:45,470 OK, announcement. 1013 01:02:45,721 --> 01:02:47,723 The top five choirs from this year's 1014 01:02:48,015 --> 01:02:50,934 2012 Golden State Choral Competition 1015 01:02:51,226 --> 01:02:55,147 coming in fifth place, Santa Monica High School. 1016 01:03:16,335 --> 01:03:18,837 - So, I'd like to start out by talking a little bit 1017 01:03:19,129 --> 01:03:21,673 about what your impressions were 1018 01:03:21,965 --> 01:03:25,427 of the performances. 1019 01:03:26,053 --> 01:03:27,179 Joe. 1020 01:03:27,471 --> 01:03:29,681 - I can't help but wonder if we would've done better 1021 01:03:29,973 --> 01:03:32,184 if we had sung a humdinger, and like, 1022 01:03:32,476 --> 01:03:34,853 everyone seemed to have one, and have kind of like 1023 01:03:35,145 --> 01:03:37,981 a crowd pleasing kind of thing, and like choreography, 1024 01:03:38,273 --> 01:03:41,235 and like everything, so I don't know. 1025 01:03:41,527 --> 01:03:44,238 - It's frustrating because maybe the choirs 1026 01:03:44,530 --> 01:03:46,130 that did have the humdinger, or whatever, 1027 01:03:46,365 --> 01:03:48,534 that catered more to these particular judges' tastes. 1028 01:03:48,826 --> 01:03:50,345 - What I think what is also interesting though 1029 01:03:50,369 --> 01:03:53,539 is there was seven choirs that didn't place, 1030 01:03:53,831 --> 01:03:55,582 had a humdinger. 1031 01:03:55,874 --> 01:03:58,001 So, it's not our humdinger that kept us out, 1032 01:03:58,293 --> 01:04:00,045 it's not the lack of a humdinger. 1033 01:04:00,337 --> 01:04:02,130 - I feel like not many other choirs 1034 01:04:02,422 --> 01:04:03,882 had a risk piece, or maybe they did, 1035 01:04:04,174 --> 01:04:07,135 and they just pulled it off, but I feel like 1036 01:04:07,427 --> 01:04:09,179 they were really safe with their selection. 1037 01:04:09,471 --> 01:04:10,180 - Well, maybe we hit it off too, 1038 01:04:10,472 --> 01:04:12,808 and they felt the same way about us. 1039 01:04:13,100 --> 01:04:15,602 - We're not the top pinnacle, we're, sometimes, 1040 01:04:15,894 --> 01:04:17,574 we all like to picture ourselves, you know, 1041 01:04:17,688 --> 01:04:19,648 here we are, and everyone else is doing this. 1042 01:04:19,940 --> 01:04:21,340 Well no, maybe we're not at the top, 1043 01:04:21,525 --> 01:04:22,901 and we do have some work to do. 1044 01:04:23,193 --> 01:04:25,821 But I think it's good to see where you are. 1045 01:04:26,113 --> 01:04:29,283 And how, and where you would like to be, 1046 01:04:29,575 --> 01:04:31,201 or where you want to go. 1047 01:04:43,213 --> 01:04:46,133 Would you please give me more than lethargy today. 1048 01:04:50,262 --> 01:04:52,014 Wow. 1049 01:04:52,306 --> 01:04:53,432 Next piece. 1050 01:04:55,392 --> 01:04:59,521 We had another one of our odd rehearsals. 1051 01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:02,274 Thank you, pack it up, thank you. 1052 01:05:03,817 --> 01:05:05,652 - It had been a really tense environment 1053 01:05:05,944 --> 01:05:08,196 just in rehearsals, just because of lack of focus, 1054 01:05:08,488 --> 01:05:11,116 frustration on his part, frustration on our part. 1055 01:05:11,408 --> 01:05:14,077 - Some people not wanting to, you know, 1056 01:05:14,369 --> 01:05:15,454 take accountability at all. 1057 01:05:15,746 --> 01:05:17,706 - If you sign up, you make a commitment, 1058 01:05:17,998 --> 01:05:19,291 then you follow through. 1059 01:05:19,583 --> 01:05:21,585 If they wanted an easier time, 1060 01:05:21,877 --> 01:05:23,317 they should not have auditioned to be 1061 01:05:23,378 --> 01:05:24,378 in the advanced ensemble. 1062 01:05:24,504 --> 01:05:26,214 Cause that's not what this is about. 1063 01:05:26,506 --> 01:05:28,258 It's about achievement at the highest level. 1064 01:05:28,550 --> 01:05:30,069 - So, there was a lot of tension in the class, 1065 01:05:30,093 --> 01:05:33,263 so we had a meeting just to diffuse the situation. 1066 01:05:36,308 --> 01:05:37,388 I've decided that we needed 1067 01:05:37,601 --> 01:05:39,895 to have a candid discussion. 1068 01:05:40,812 --> 01:05:43,148 - He's playing like this ridiculous Tai Chi, 1069 01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:47,527 Feng Shui music, and we were all in chairs in a circle. 1070 01:05:47,819 --> 01:05:49,780 And it was like group therapy. 1071 01:05:50,072 --> 01:05:53,617 - One student happened to just talk about how 1072 01:05:53,909 --> 01:05:55,911 he doesn't want to focus in choir, 1073 01:05:56,203 --> 01:05:58,872 and he sees it as a social outlet. 1074 01:05:59,164 --> 01:06:00,892 - When he said, "I just want to come to choir 1075 01:06:00,916 --> 01:06:04,378 "to hang out with my buddies, or something." 1076 01:06:05,295 --> 01:06:07,798 - I remember freezing in that moment 1077 01:06:08,090 --> 01:06:09,925 cause I was just like, "Are you kidding me?" 1078 01:06:10,217 --> 01:06:13,470 - And it was just so obviously, like, 1079 01:06:13,762 --> 01:06:15,222 what the problem was. 1080 01:06:15,514 --> 01:06:18,558 - I think that that comment was a major breakthrough, 1081 01:06:18,850 --> 01:06:21,645 because after he had spoken, another couple students 1082 01:06:21,937 --> 01:06:23,814 said something to the effect of, 1083 01:06:24,106 --> 01:06:25,306 "Yes, choir is a social place, 1084 01:06:25,482 --> 01:06:26,802 "a place where we can be together, 1085 01:06:26,942 --> 01:06:28,485 "and we come together to make music, 1086 01:06:28,777 --> 01:06:30,777 "and, you know, a number of us are friends in here, 1087 01:06:31,029 --> 01:06:32,189 "but there has to be balance. 1088 01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:33,424 "There has to be balance with 1089 01:06:33,448 --> 01:06:35,158 "what we want to accomplish as well." 1090 01:06:35,450 --> 01:06:37,411 - It focused us, like after that, 1091 01:06:37,703 --> 01:06:39,913 I don't think anyone wanted to do that again. 1092 01:06:40,205 --> 01:06:41,665 - Once we all really understand 1093 01:06:41,957 --> 01:06:45,335 what we personally add to the choir, 1094 01:06:45,627 --> 01:06:48,714 and we all accept that that is our role in the choir, 1095 01:06:49,006 --> 01:06:53,301 and we all just come together, we can be the best. 1096 01:06:53,593 --> 01:06:56,138 We can be better than Madrigals has ever been. 1097 01:06:56,722 --> 01:06:58,890 It tickles, it tickles, it tickles. 1098 01:07:00,851 --> 01:07:04,062 We've grown closer as a choir. 1099 01:07:04,354 --> 01:07:05,581 Everybody's more comfortable, I would say. 1100 01:07:05,605 --> 01:07:06,916 You know, everybody knows each other better, 1101 01:07:06,940 --> 01:07:09,234 and there's more of a sense of connection. 1102 01:07:12,779 --> 01:07:15,949 - We talk about everything, we're just more open. 1103 01:07:17,576 --> 01:07:19,828 We're open in choir than we are in other classes. 1104 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:21,413 Because you have to be. 1105 01:07:24,249 --> 01:07:27,919 - I just, I love choir, I love Mr. Huls, I love the kids, 1106 01:07:28,211 --> 01:07:29,671 and it's just been one of 1107 01:07:29,963 --> 01:07:32,340 the better high school experiences. 1108 01:07:33,884 --> 01:07:35,324 - We actually have our own place now. 1109 01:07:35,594 --> 01:07:37,262 It's an apartment. 1110 01:07:37,554 --> 01:07:39,931 It's nice, I mean it's better than what we had before. 1111 01:07:40,223 --> 01:07:42,601 Even though it's far, it's worth coming here. 1112 01:07:42,893 --> 01:07:44,579 I was actually thinking about transferring there, 1113 01:07:44,603 --> 01:07:47,564 but then I thought about, like, what I'm leaving behind, 1114 01:07:47,856 --> 01:07:49,856 and choir was the first thing that came to my mind. 1115 01:07:50,025 --> 01:07:53,195 I was like, "No, I'm not gonna leave the choir." 1116 01:07:53,487 --> 01:07:55,089 - In the orchestra, and in the band, you know, 1117 01:07:55,113 --> 01:07:56,490 you're playing something else, 1118 01:07:56,782 --> 01:07:58,867 but in the choir it's your own body. 1119 01:07:59,159 --> 01:08:01,495 Cause your soul is like a part of this experience, 1120 01:08:01,787 --> 01:08:03,872 and it's really cool. 1121 01:08:04,164 --> 01:08:07,292 - Be ready to work next week because we're gonna go crazy. 1122 01:08:07,584 --> 01:08:09,127 I'm gonna be crazy. 1123 01:08:09,419 --> 01:08:11,421 It is normal, week of the concert. 1124 01:08:11,713 --> 01:08:13,256 I warn you now. 1125 01:08:14,716 --> 01:08:17,302 Come wearing armor. 1126 01:08:19,137 --> 01:08:22,099 Many lunch periods, and extra time remain 1127 01:08:22,390 --> 01:08:24,392 for you to take advantage of fully. 1128 01:08:26,394 --> 01:08:29,314 Hint, hint, double hint, hint. 1129 01:08:33,401 --> 01:08:35,445 The rehearsals towards the last weeks of school 1130 01:08:35,737 --> 01:08:38,532 were really focused and exactly what I would have 1131 01:08:38,824 --> 01:08:41,409 wanted for my entire year. 1132 01:08:44,830 --> 01:08:47,165 It's sort of a better late than never scenario. 1133 01:08:47,457 --> 01:08:48,750 Yes good. 1134 01:08:52,921 --> 01:08:54,548 Good, good, good, excellent, excellent. 1135 01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:56,758 Don't forget it, or do it any other way. 1136 01:08:58,051 --> 01:09:00,345 This is the big concert we put on here 1137 01:09:00,637 --> 01:09:02,055 that features everyone. 1138 01:09:02,347 --> 01:09:04,266 - The concert is called Motus Perpetuus, 1139 01:09:04,558 --> 01:09:06,601 which translates to constant motion. 1140 01:09:06,893 --> 01:09:10,313 It's a choral version of surround sound. 1141 01:09:10,605 --> 01:09:11,833 - It will be the last time that I'm singing 1142 01:09:11,857 --> 01:09:13,567 with my fellow choir members, you know. 1143 01:09:13,859 --> 01:09:15,777 It's really hard for me to say goodbye, 1144 01:09:16,069 --> 01:09:18,280 so I think that's gonna be my hardest. 1145 01:09:18,572 --> 01:09:20,699 That's gonna be the hardest, yeah. 1146 01:09:22,033 --> 01:09:23,743 I'm gonna be so sad. 1147 01:09:25,829 --> 01:09:27,549 - Part of what makes this concert special is 1148 01:09:27,664 --> 01:09:30,500 that we just do this with this rehearsal. 1149 01:09:30,792 --> 01:09:32,961 And it is what it is, we do our best. 1150 01:09:33,253 --> 01:09:35,213 So, let's commit ourselves to doing that 1151 01:09:35,505 --> 01:09:38,758 for the next hour. 1152 01:09:39,050 --> 01:09:40,886 Women's chorus you're at that door back there, 1153 01:09:41,178 --> 01:09:42,345 ready to come in, go. 1154 01:09:42,637 --> 01:09:44,517 - One piece will start, and it will be on stage, 1155 01:09:44,598 --> 01:09:45,918 and then like a different ensemble 1156 01:09:46,099 --> 01:09:48,310 will be up in the balcony, or in the foyer. 1157 01:09:48,602 --> 01:09:51,271 - We're gonna try and catch our audience off guard, 1158 01:09:51,563 --> 01:09:53,443 and make them pay attention to what we're doing. 1159 01:09:56,693 --> 01:09:59,237 OK, we'll pretend that song has ended, go. 1160 01:09:59,529 --> 01:10:01,323 - We have like a flight itinerary plan 1161 01:10:01,615 --> 01:10:03,116 where we all get a list that says, 1162 01:10:03,408 --> 01:10:05,368 "OK, during this piece, this choir is going there, 1163 01:10:05,535 --> 01:10:06,762 "and this choir should be here." 1164 01:10:06,786 --> 01:10:08,146 And the whole time no one's talking 1165 01:10:08,246 --> 01:10:09,915 and we run how everything is gonna move 1166 01:10:10,207 --> 01:10:12,334 and how we're gonna get 150 students. 1167 01:10:12,626 --> 01:10:15,212 Most of them are in high heels to move about Barnum 1168 01:10:15,503 --> 01:10:18,423 in a silent and orderly fashion. 1169 01:10:21,927 --> 01:10:24,137 - Stop, please don't do the bad habit 1170 01:10:24,429 --> 01:10:25,805 of breathing after every half note. 1171 01:10:26,097 --> 01:10:27,557 The whole phrase is my shepherd 1172 01:10:27,849 --> 01:10:30,685 will supply my need, not my shepherd will 1173 01:10:31,603 --> 01:10:33,188 supply my need. 1174 01:10:35,232 --> 01:10:36,858 I'm a control freak. 1175 01:10:37,150 --> 01:10:39,236 Sit down men, women back on stage. 1176 01:10:39,527 --> 01:10:40,654 We will do that again. 1177 01:10:40,946 --> 01:10:42,346 I want to make sure that the product 1178 01:10:42,489 --> 01:10:45,200 that goes out there is always reflective of me. 1179 01:10:45,492 --> 01:10:47,535 It's reflective of my vision for the program. 1180 01:10:47,827 --> 01:10:50,205 Reflective of the professionalism 1181 01:10:50,497 --> 01:10:53,667 with which I want this program to be seen. 1182 01:11:17,774 --> 01:11:20,485 Alright, ready. 1183 01:11:43,633 --> 01:11:45,760 With this concert 1184 01:11:46,052 --> 01:11:48,346 I wanted it to feel a little bit reflective. 1185 01:11:52,851 --> 01:11:54,495 I think about how that might have been heard 1186 01:11:54,519 --> 01:11:55,895 in the middle ages. 1187 01:11:57,856 --> 01:12:00,692 You know, the monks were chanting off in the cloisters. 1188 01:12:02,569 --> 01:12:06,448 And you might just here that wafting out lightly. 1189 01:15:15,470 --> 01:15:18,223 The challenge is always daunting. 1190 01:15:18,515 --> 01:15:21,518 It is always, I always look at a hill and go, 1191 01:15:21,809 --> 01:15:24,062 "Oh my God, another hill." 1192 01:15:24,354 --> 01:15:26,981 Always, you know, I'm rarely the person to go, 1193 01:15:27,273 --> 01:15:28,399 "Oh goody, a hill." 1194 01:15:28,691 --> 01:15:32,779 But the process 1195 01:15:33,071 --> 01:15:35,281 of going over the hill 1196 01:15:35,573 --> 01:15:36,783 is awesome. 1197 01:15:41,788 --> 01:15:43,307 When I can send them into groups and go, 1198 01:15:43,331 --> 01:15:44,731 "OK, go learn this part of the music 1199 01:15:44,999 --> 01:15:47,085 "and come back, and we're gonna put it together." 1200 01:15:47,377 --> 01:15:48,687 And I watch them working in groups, 1201 01:15:48,711 --> 01:15:50,547 and I see them collaborating. 1202 01:15:52,549 --> 01:15:55,176 And then, they come back and they take their little pieces 1203 01:15:55,468 --> 01:15:56,803 and put it as part of the whole, 1204 01:15:57,095 --> 01:15:58,375 and then it becomes more magical. 1205 01:15:58,471 --> 01:16:00,306 And then, we take that whole and we polish it, 1206 01:16:00,598 --> 01:16:02,767 and we hone it, and it just, it's a process 1207 01:16:03,059 --> 01:16:04,059 that builds on itself. 1208 01:16:04,227 --> 01:16:07,146 And I think I'm addicted to that process. 1209 01:16:12,527 --> 01:16:14,167 We had to get used to each other at first. 1210 01:16:14,320 --> 01:16:16,906 Now that we have, we make great music. 1211 01:16:19,534 --> 01:16:21,202 When we're together there's just, 1212 01:16:21,494 --> 01:16:23,329 it's like nothing else. 1213 01:16:23,997 --> 01:16:25,290 Everyone cares about the music, 1214 01:16:25,582 --> 01:16:27,226 and cares about the music, and working together, 1215 01:16:27,250 --> 01:16:30,378 and that sensation is like ecstasy. 1216 01:17:25,433 --> 01:17:28,394 It's hard to let kids go 1217 01:17:28,686 --> 01:17:30,938 that you've known for four years. 1218 01:17:41,407 --> 01:17:43,260 Mostly because you feel like you've just gotten them 1219 01:17:43,284 --> 01:17:45,328 to where you want them to be. 1220 01:17:49,540 --> 01:17:52,251 In many ways, they become part of my family. 1221 01:17:53,544 --> 01:17:55,338 Many of them come to me with issues 1222 01:17:55,630 --> 01:17:59,258 they're dealing with at home, or with their friends. 1223 01:17:59,550 --> 01:18:02,303 With other teachers, and you get to know them 1224 01:18:02,595 --> 01:18:04,389 on a different level. 1225 01:18:14,899 --> 01:18:17,902 And then you have to let them go. 1226 01:18:31,457 --> 01:18:35,336 I also have to look at it as they've outgrown me, 1227 01:18:35,628 --> 01:18:38,381 and they need to go start with someone new. 1228 01:18:39,424 --> 01:18:43,219 And that's part of the life journey in the steps we take. 1229 01:18:43,511 --> 01:18:45,596 We all start over at the bottom, 1230 01:18:45,888 --> 01:18:48,891 and climb our way up, and start again, and renew. 1231 01:18:50,685 --> 01:18:54,564 It's hard, but also joyous.